#edward curtis

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A Navajo smile, ca. 1904

Photo by Edward Curtis

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American photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis is pictured below standing by the carcass of a whale in British Columbia c. 1913. Curtis sought to preserve the history of the American West and the culture of its indigenous people through his photography and writing, and is best known for his twenty-volume magnum opus The North American Indian.

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Aphrodite (The Siren of the Sea) by Edward Curtis, c. 1920

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Edward Curtis | Native Americans, 1908

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Navajo riders in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. Edward Curtis (1904)

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Photographs of various native ceremonial masks of tribes in the Pacific Northwest photographed by Edward Curtis. (From the Public Domain Review)

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The North American Indian women looking at a whale by Edward Curtis, 1915